How to handle very old dates in PHP

Asked Aug 08 '14 at 10:46

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How Can we find difference between two older Gregorian dates(from 1000 to 3000 years),I tried bellow method

$diff = abs(strtotime($date2) - strtotime($date1));
$years = floor($diff / (365*60*60*24));
$months = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24) / (30*60*60*24));
$days = floor(($diff - $years * 365*60*60*24 - $months*30*60*60*24)/ (60*60*24));
printf("%d years, %d months, %d days\n", $years, $months, $days);

but that works only within 1970-2038,How can I handle older dates (from year 1000) using PHP? please give me any suggestion??

(Note:I have go through method which is already given in stackoverflow, It only allow me to format dates but I can't find difference between two dates )

edited Aug 08 '14 at 11:13

asked Aug 08 '14 at 10:46

Santhoshkumar Sivaji

A quick google search gets you [answers](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2871264/using-strtotime-for-dates-before-1970) – Patsy Issa Aug 08 '14 at 10:49
@PatsyIssa thats useless, as its still limited to - Fri, 13 Dec 1901... i think to do math on older dates, you will have to write the methods yourself, I don't know of any standard PHP library which will accomplish this. – RaggaMuffin-420 Aug 08 '14 at 10:51
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@RaggaMuffin-420 My bad wrong result http://stackoverflow.com/a/2449399/1401094 – Patsy Issa Aug 08 '14 at 10:54
@Patsylssa could you please give me any overview to write custom method for dates – Santhoshkumar Sivaji Aug 08 '14 at 11:07
if any one found duplicate question please kindly first give link for solution which is already answered..... – Santhoshkumar Sivaji Aug 08 '14 at 11:25

How to handle very old dates in PHP

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